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What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

From the Annals of Questionable Ideas in Medicine

By Mimi Swartz | August 3, 2018

The Vietnam War Deserters Who Sought Asylum in Sweden

The Vietnam War Deserters Who Sought Asylum in Sweden

On the Anti-War Activists Who Took on the U.S. Military
and the Japanese Government

By Matthew Turner | August 3, 2018

What is Happening in Nicaragua Right Now?

What is Happening in Nicaragua Right Now?

On the Chance for Real Change Through a Nonviolent Civilian Uprising

By Sergio Ramirez | August 3, 2018

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

Martin Couney May Not Have Had Medical Credentials, But He Saved Thousands

By Dawn Raffel | August 3, 2018

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

Because Good Fan Art is Hard to Find

By Emily Temple | August 3, 2018

Who Decides What's Tacky Anyway?

Who Decides What's Tacky Anyway?

On Bad Taste and Leopard Print in the 1970s

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"My family was a series of hushed rages behind shut doors."

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Please, Consider the Beaver

Please, Consider the Beaver

On Past and Present Threats to The "Linebacker of the Animal Kingdom"

By Ben Goldfarb | August 1, 2018

How Rachel Cusk's <em>Outline</em> Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

How Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

Charlotte Strick on Designing Outline, Transit, and Kudos

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The Indisputably Best Dogs in (Contemporary) Literature

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Beyond Lassie, Cujo, Marley, and Other Very Good Boys

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A History of Violence, From Frontier to Family

A History of Violence, From Frontier to Family

Paula Saunders Examines the Parallel Lines of History and Home

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The Story of a Life in a Single Photograph

The Story of a Life in a Single Photograph

Panashe Chigumadzi on the Woman Who Would Become Her Grandmother

By Panashe Chigumadzi | July 30, 2018

Writing a Memoir to Honor My Younger Self

Writing a Memoir to Honor My Younger Self

Casey Legler in Conversation with Hanya Yanagihara

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